001in for a short prayer I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all our lord Jesus thank you thank you for the little bit of rain that we're getting and be great if it just kept going you know we kind of leave that up to you know best and just give you praise for the fact that you extend Mercy to us when we deserve something else instead you show us your grace and your goodness I just ask it somehow through our leadership our decisions all the way down to staff and the students that will exhibit you and the character of your life in the way that we've lived and the decisions that we
002make these things are asking your precious name amen thank you producer board meetings will be July the 11th the 25th again once again on August the 8th regular time here at the office uh revisions of agenda there's just a small change on one date on HR public recognition I want to recommend for the approval the 200 donation from Bible Study Fellowship class of the Church of Christ at treaty um I think it's an honor of Mrs Liberty and we also have a recommendation to approve 431.62 cents donation from donors to choose individual donors on that is Danielle Whiteman Kyle Sparks Jennifer nestler and Sonic foundation and that's for Mrs Watkins project growing young readers also recommendation to prove 522 donation from donors choose the individual donors on that uh once again Daniel Weidman Neil Beaver
003Shanti Friedman Jessica Miller Jennifer nessler General Motors and the Sonic foundation and that goes for Mrs Cox's project lineup your learning to approve those donations I'm sorry about um all right we appreciate this School recognition Mike well but um Mrs Boone go ahead and just share a little bit about uh the bridge program anything else that she wants to share at this time so just a little update thank you if you don't mind I'm going to use my notes so that I don't really know too much because I get too excited talking about bridge but this year we have served 618 students from throughout the 22-23 school year and I would say especially coming off of graduation that that was probably our highlight this year having it in the Honeywell Center was wonderful it was
004just it was especially nice and the staff there was fantastic to work with we actually had 61 students attend graduation several of them came from two and three hours away to be present at that so that was that was really special and we really appreciated the families and the students who made the trip and made the effort to be here um most of you are very aware of bridge and the students that we serve but I think this I would say that this is probably our highlight if you ask all of our staff this would probably be what they would say as well that's the majority of our students have experienced significant challenges and obstacles in their life and many of them probably had no hope of getting to this point of graduation and yet
005they did so at this point we have we have 126 127 as of when I left the house tonight 127 graduates we have several more still working to get done and just to be able to celebrate that at the Honeywell with see see them face to face and get a celebrate in that and see their excitement and um share that share in that celebration with their families was a real blessing to our family I was there on behalf of the bridge team I also want to extend gratitude with the Honeywell staff having them there to support and manage things and and set things up in between three graduations is just huge and they accommodated all the different needs and they were extremely flexible I'm sure that with their staff and the way that they run
006things are used to everything being on a time in a timely fashion and with our program there needs to be a little bit of flexibility with our kids traveling and they did so I really appreciated them rolling with it and just being able to remain flexible and to accommodate our needs in that moment um let's see what else I just want to also give a quick thank you to our entire Bridge team we've got one Northfield staff several Southwood High School staff and several whites staff and a couple of teachers at Southwood Elementary who helped and are part of the bridge team and I will tell you that a lot of these students wouldn't have made it if it wasn't for their Relentless Pursuit and constant encouragement and pushing sometimes to get things done so
007I really appreciate every person that we have we just have a tremendous as you all are well aware we have tremendous staff at MSD and I've been blessed to come say some of the top-notch ones agree to be a part of bridge and they believe in the mission of what we're trying to do and they are just doing a fantastic job with our students um I'll just really quickly highlight our teacher of the year at whites was a bridge teacher Mrs Cara gwith and she came to us about three and a half years ago from Oak Hill and if she was here I would tell her she's not allowed to retire and she's not allowed to leave but she's just amazing the way that she has a heart for our kids and a real passion
008she works tirelessly to continue to not only improve herself professionally but to seek out ways to better serve our students and then meet their individual needs and I just sincerely appreciate that in her and um this is I have one other thing I'm going to talk about but it's going to shift from bridge so does anybody have any questions or anything before I move one comment I want to make that um obviously we've talked about this a lot but Mrs Boone does an excellent job in leading her staff and um I'm sure she has to motivate sometimes but she has a lot of people that are already motivating and encouraging the students which makes the success of the program but also what you talked about you know there's still some that will graduate of course
009those some students will continue on but the cohort of students actually can go on this 2023 can go all the way through October one and so that's why she could have more between now and October one that would be part of that cohort along with our other schools because sometimes they don't necessarily finish on time at our traditional or traditional brick and mortar schools but they still have until October 1 to be able to do it to get to on the cohort of the foreign year they also do a five-year cohort also but we we try to make sure that they get done complete in the four years so again just kudos to Mrs Boone and all the things that she does there you know it's it's really cool to see the the flower ceremony
010you guys were all there we had one that was with the daughter which is certainly fine that was something we needed to do but the flower ceremony is really really neat I took some pictures of those people that were painting those and the hugs and all the different things and that's that's a really neat uh ceremony hopefully you can keep that keep that up so as long as we can have carnations right so that's right that's all you need anybody else any comments or questions I'm just glad you had it at the same time because that was really neat to see those kids are fun you know you say no hooping a dollar dang I want to do it because so I think I'm going to take that part of my seal album it was
011wasted time but no it was just fun and you you timed it enough that when they did they weren't overlapped at all you know you gave that one kid you know it was fun watching I saw one girl up there she was just shaking before she her name was you mentioned all the different situations with students and and how you know maybe um you know they wanted to do this but you know there would be some different situations but she had one student that just couldn't go through the whole situation of being in front of everybody and but yet they still made it that that's what we really want but um sometimes they just had different situations and maybe have that stage fear that some of us can have too but maybe they've never been
012in an auditorium that large either so just interested in all the different factors that play into their education and what they want to accomplish and I do appreciate so many of you being there and even bringing their lives along because I know that was a huge thing for you all so I appreciate you sticking around for the last one thank you well I wouldn't agree with what she said I think we were talking about that scheduling that probably made the football stuff yeah we're gonna look at that for next year so that's some things that we may have to do with the counter and actually I have that on my superintendent report too so a little bit more go ahead and talk about your other yes may I speak on behalf of Southwood track or
013are you going to do that because I noticed you I put it on there but no I would like for you to go ahead and do a high school make sure when I was there so go ahead sure so I I would like to recognize four students from Southwood who made the IAT cccc which is the Indiana athletic track and cross country coaches association made academic Allstate the criteria for that is you have to be nominated by the head coach be Juniors and seniors have to be Varsity athletes of course on the sectional roster minimum GPA of 3.5 and seniors have to have a minimum sat of 1200 and juniors have to have a PSAT store if they don't have an SAT of 1140 but we had four students at Southwood meet that criteria and
014be nominated by the by the coaches voted on they made an honorable mention our seniors were bringing the only Zeb Herring and Aaliyah sweet and our Junior was Randy Boone so I just want to congratulate those guys for their hard work not only on the athletic field but also in the classroom good I think that's all yeah for our recognitions and spotlights and all those different things behind yeah Tom and just say now you can't retire and move either probably comment on any agenda items if not I'll take motions or proof minutes from prior meetings so a second all in favor say aye all right let's move on to claims questions for Chris to answer if you have someone that um notice the gym floor was in there you had our first installment for that
015at Southland they hold some in reserve for the final walk-through eventually winkled it you know okay I had one on page 16 or sure Challenger for 45 000 employees yeah that is so we bought a lift station for our mechanic to lift and raise our buses and other vehicles so that it can work underneath them a little bit easier those can be used inside or outside um he's gotten a lot of we tried we did a trial base for about a month I found a lot of use out of them and he's been able to do some things that he has not been able to do with a lot of our buses and the things that he is able to do will add life to those buses especially being able to power wash underneath them
016and do those types of things and so I think it's a well it's a good investment and I think Jeff I think you saw let's say those in use out there before too yeah so it's uh he's like a kid in a candy store with him generally if you're kind of thing yeah they've been automotives like this he knows a car like a Dodge Challenger or something yeah [Music] okay it's cool does he have enough seating room on the inside to do it to get it out but if he wants to get up higher you've got to go outside now we're going to do a few things to make some adjustments in there with uh um work with our garage door openers yeah just to move them out away that will give them a lot
017more room to be able to use some but he likes to use them outside too because we just get out the outside it must be fairly portable now yeah they can move they've just done rollers so they're four separate devices yeah and they just roll out and then he dries up on them and they you raise and lower together connected through Bluetooth yeah it's pretty high everyone in favor approving claims just say hi Oh yeah all right payroll nothing new with payroll the only thing that we're still waiting on uh that's not been reflected in some of the past payrolls is just the spring Sports coaching space so those will probably be like the next couple payrolls we have a motion for that exactly everyone's favorite proving payroll say aye all right all right Financial
018summary anything there uh so since we only have one boarding board meeting this month I finalize some cash flow with our end of the month typically we just do end of the month here balances but I threw in the cash flow uh just because like somebody had one meeting this month you'll see an increase in the education fund and that is primarily due to a grant that we received the last couple years through covid we were able to apply for a stabilization Grant which is focused on preschool last year we received 187 000 I think from the grant uh this year uh we were able to get about four hundred thousand dollars from the Grant and so 350 000 of that is being reflected now or received some of the remainder of that later on
019but those are one-time monies so it's not a constant Revenue stream those won't be grants that will continue to harm most likely because they were during coverage learning loss type of time so um that's why you see the phone in the education fund that we figured out how much it's going to cost us by the middle and all that well we don't know exactly how much we're going to get yeah either so yeah so we've got a little discussion about that yeah we've got a lot of discussions that would be kind of a year-long process to really figure out what those dollars are going to be as far as what our needs are versus what we receive back uh from the state and so the way it's set up just so that you know is
020that the Alec the state legislator allocated 160 million dollars and they're gonna they're gonna divide it up by ADM and so however many ABM Statewide divided by That 160 million will tell you how much you'll get per student and so then depending on how much ADM we have at that time was how much textbook money you will receive regardless of how much textbook we need and then and what they were saying is with the ADM it was 151.88 that was a rough estimate per students but and there's some things that are paid out of different accounts sometimes or different places or grants or whatever and so yeah it is going to be a year-long process it will be we will end up having to pay some of those costs ourselves so because of that is
021it have you heard of any pushback from the School Board Association or anyone well the pushback was early on during the legislative pricing is not going to be enough to cover the cost of the curricular materials that they're talking about and they were looking at going from 160 million to 200 million but they didn't budge on that part of it that certainly would have helped I still think it had been a little bit of a shortfall um probably 220 because you can think about just ours and what I've heard people say but quite a bit actually cool yes did they write into the legislation the fact that you're going to have to use the textbooks approved by the Department of Education so that's still a gray area that could be effective that could be changed
022yes okay you know short session next year and see what happens then they'll do and study perceptions now or some reception so I haven't heard anything under Human Resources it's a night we have underemployment Kyle Nguyen summer custodian for all the schools I believe 161 beginning August the 7th for their first nine weeks uh retirement Death Clock future South and high school Mark Hewitt teacher at whites high school and transfer we have Tony Baker transferring from the general maintenance team to assistant facility slash maintenance director effective July 1st well I thought we had one that's the that's accomplishment oh I'm sorry that was mine sorry I saw those names on it okay I'm good yeah I put the conference on there just in case you're supposed to talk about it motion's approving improve HR in
023the opposition Etc we don't want the teachers to retire so if you already vote on it well anyway I can't stop that I know anyway uh Mrs clock at Southwood uh just appreciate her years she hasn't been with us very long but she has decided to retire so we appreciate her time with this um she did an excellent job as a math teacher at Southwood so we have open positions if anybody's interested in the position there and Mark Q we also appreciate Mark uh uh Mr Hewitt um just had some unfortunate situations obviously very important very sad situation with the passing of his wife and um decided to go ahead and retire and we wish him well as as he goes through the new season of life with that too he's been there for several
024years so I just appreciate both of them and the work that they did at both of those schools foreign yeah I just wanted to mention a couple things and we've talked about a little bit but uh just the graduation success again um I did put a question mark on here as far as graduation changes I did put that out to a lot of different of our people that that were working on that because we had a lot of people involved to try to make that happen a lot of emails a lot of discussions a lot of visits to the Honeywell Center in a Ford Theater because a lot of people want to see how things were going to happen but the one change that we may make is if we do the timing difference as
025far as with bridge to maybe do that first but we can talk about that later I don't know if you had any feedback either Tanya we'll talk about that later also we may make a change to the calendar that would be one change in the calendar as far as even graduation put the times because it's already listed on the calendar for 23 24 as far as that Sunday in the different times so we may have to make that change but also we may make a slight change in the whites calendar because when Mr mcdivitt was working on that that he wanted to make sure that on an ADM count day which is typically around that it's on a Friday usually the second Friday and there's there's a whole thing in the legislation the old legislation
026but it's going to be on September 15th on Friday they don't typically attend on Friday but it's good to be in attendance on ADM time so we had it on the counter but legislators then changed it after we already approved the calendars and so now the ADM will be on October 2nd which is a Monday so they're going to be there anyway so they may make a change a little bit with that Friday to me or may not just give you a little information there also we're still waiting on the 1003 flexibility waiver that could also change our calendar just slightly I think it's going to pass or what we put in as far as our application to that but there may be some things that we have to do with inclement weather days right
027now the legislation says or the law says that we can use three asynchronous days and if we are approved for the professional development days which we have three of those schedules September October and March uh those three we don't have to necessarily have school or any e-learning today because e-learning those days and so that would be our minutes so if the State Board of Education approves that we would have those three days um no e-learning if we have canceled days which typically we do the first three can be asynchronous which we normally do which would be regular e-learning and if they are approved an extension of that we can still do asynchronous for additional days if they approve that if they don't approve that then that's where we have to make a little bit of
028a change and that would be either doing synchronous learning or adding days to our calendar for makeup days so I hope I confused you because it could use us I know what I'm talking about here but it's very confusing so if you want me to start over and say it again I can but uh anyway that's that and those are just like 22 24 calendar updates that you know we think that we have everything settled and we can just change online we were supposed to know just to say one more thing about that we were supposed to know by May with that they pushed it back to June and they pushed it back again to July and so that's been a little frustrating but a situation training so that's all I have thank you yeah
029Mr drink curriculum or anything absolutely so just so you know we're in summer school mode and we like to call it summer school on steroids Jeanette leads that and this is High School we worked really hard just with covet and we know all those things coming up and so we've invested a lot of extra dollars to help with that um and uh we're always really excited to do that it's a great deal we have teachers in there with kids for extended summer I'm also going to bring to you now our science curricular resources and this is going to be a recommendation for approval to uh now or you know that's later except to you guys just later on so we'll I can just address that later on it comes up and so um it was
030fun having the graduations um I thought that was really cool lots of great feedback from people that attended somebody suggested that there were more people than normally would have attention I'm really excited that's a big part of our curriculum to celebrate those things it was a great question I'll come back and talk to you later in a few months you want to say anything about this Mr Craig we're just there now okay thank you under new business this evening we have nine items the first one being the second reading and vote for the bridge handbook for 2023-24 and really my recommendation is you know we talked a little bit about there weren't very many changes to that but I have it all here we can read the whole thing if you want or we can
031go through it and you can approve it and if you want to do one these one at a time that's fine for me I just asking so I'll try to speed it up but I thought you know all right so we'll take a motion to approve the bridge handbook for the next year so the second one all in favor say aye next one would be the handbook for the elementaries the 2023-24. here again I just make a recommendation that you approve that there were very few changes uh probably the biggest change was um just in the discipline part of it that we talked about last time so that means to approve the elementary handbook no second time all in favor say aye all right the last one being the high school Handbook of course there
032are some changes and I was also make a recommendation that that would be approved and um I was thinking about maybe not putting all this on here but uh I went ahead and did it anyway but there's the ones they have a few more additions but here again it's on approval dates and update the principal Board of Education names updates on high school promotion placement retention graduation requirements and student assessments also to add a language about threats at the bottom of the page on page 29 which is the rubric or the The Matrix and then also remove Tiffany Valley replace with Lewis Cass for the athletic one replace best shooter percentage but top Defender award for girls basketball replace top chain wrestler with the most takedowns so just have a recommend I would recommend that
033you approve these for next year to move it have a motion a second for approvals everyone favors hey aye aye all right Mr Drake you want to address the size you might have to wait about another five minutes before I flip through the 85 pages so I was I can feel I can feel them again okay go ahead and keep going uh so I brought these to you a couple weeks ago um and we put them on public display Ms Dawson was here with us and she's probably the most interesting Community member we have that come and looks over there and she has a good chemistry well just science background and she's got a good feel for the values of the community and so we appreciate her looking through these we've had teachers and other
034parents look at them um and there were no concerns raised by anybody uh we have some of those are digital only mostly the digital home leader because the Publishers aren't printing books anymore and so at that at that age level or grade or class so it wasn't even an option and so others we just bought books sometimes the books come with free digital and so uh the ones that have digital will keep for six years that's a typical lifespan of a textbook and in six years we'll come back to this process and start that over again financially sounded has uh has a ripple effect in other areas and so because we've been so financially sound we were able to set aside extra dollars to help cover these costs whereas other districts aren't able to do
035that and so um our TBR said to margins will go into the devices but we were able to use less dollars to help purchase them and so it kind of gives us the best of both worlds we have some sometimes we have the imprint books for teachers or students for that words and then we have a digital we're diagnosed team and so um you can see there the courses are on the left the grade levels the AP ones we use are we have a high ability Grant we're using those funds to help make those purchases um and all of those are books with digital components to them so I don't know are there any questions that you might have about this your anticipant we're using for six years I would anticipate yeah and so we
036did it this is the first time we've adopted science actually it's my first time it's been a while since we've adopted so most of our textbooks that the teachers have are much older than six years um so we'll see what the landscape was like with this new state funding formula and classroom fees and how that all plays out and how you buy that and um contrary to what you might have expected going digital should be cheaper however it is not um and they give you lots of bells and whistles but they don't the prices are no cheaper digital than our textbooks and inflation has hit there too and so again it was nice to have the astronauts I really didn't have to hold back too much I should add that some of these come with
037lab materials and things and so you're able to purchase those from the teachers so they have all that on hand again it's a Time Saver thing our teachers could probably find them in other areas but then they're spending their time looking for that so we use less of dollars to help a little too so all of our science teachers they've all looked in all these that's correct and so the biology teachers looked at the biology books the chemistry teachers the chemistry and some people teach biology and you know they all work and so they look through them the principles met with them and I were three women some community members are looking through them and we'll continue to look through them uh we're we would love to have the input on that you know you
038don't want to have any blind spots too so um if we find something we'll address it and it always comes down to the person using the material and we're very confident with our teachers and our Administration that if something were to rise we would expect the teacher to fit comfortably within onwards the digital is just a one-time purchase just like a textbook would be there's not a yearly theme we will pay for it all up front so it's a six-year subscription you pay for it oh again to find a way to check so if you only go five I promise efficient that's correct that's correct and so again not knowing what the future holds for funding we're going to stick with the six year cycle for now and see what comes from that and I
039would expect to buy the Department of Education is probably going to give us books to use next time um they are building that since they're funding the curricular materials now they're going to give us a list next year for some other subjects that I imagine by the time you go back to science build chosen or this mayor of our field not considerably the two things and when we talk about that though too another example and Mr Gray can probably share with that a little bit too so with assessments there's a list of Assessments too and they actually allow for all the assessments to get to choose from so when we think about that we might think of a negative situation but also on the other hand it may be limited but maybe again it might
040be what we already look at so we just don't know about though but with the assessments that's what they did this year they allowed for they left for a handful yeah but the ones that they chose were ones we were familiar with right yeah yeah maybe not a good comparison but yeah I think so yeah I guess that's it too who would normally do this much earlier in the year but the legislature thought they would give us a list of some her science approved books before this that they didn't miss it so so we're going to order them out hopefully the teachers get them before school starts that may not be the case depending on supply chain all right I'll make a motion improve adoption of the science books a move to approve the adoption
041of the science books everyone there say aye all right Mr Drake mentioned that sir we have an item number five elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund yes sir six-month requirement review and recommendation to approve no changes to our current re-entry plans and so by law since we receive the elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund Esser for short we are required to do this every six months I believe this is our last time we've done this you've seen us on several agendas the last six months or six months prior by year and year six months and two years ago and so our recommendation is that there'll be no changes and we'll continue on as we get back and we just have to have by law too we will put this on our website again
042that we did this if there are any comments if there are no comments and approval absolutely sir all in favor say aye opposed and thank you recommendation to approve Metro North Chiller replacement is when addressing yeah sure um so Wednesday we had our bid opening for two items one being the Metro North Elementary teller the base bid was presented as a split Chiller unit um with a trained model alternates one a b and c were a similar type of units that we currently have except 1A was a train tiller unit 1B was a York tiller unit and one C was a Daikin Chiller unit and then alternate two was also to provide the cost of a split Chiller unit from Daikin instead of training I don't really like how they tabulated all of that stuff
043but it shows you what those base bids are and then subtract those other dollar amounts for those Alternatives there and so after conversations with Steve and um everyone else we decided that we would keep a similar style unit that we have with the train unit and recommend um the alternate 1A bid which would come out to be 194 500. questions on that it's nice to see it come under yes yeah the estimate was 276 000. which was the estimate kind of based off of the display unit we approve the purchase of the children for the much more using this but right all in favor approval say aye recommendation approved Northfield High School Stafford High School yeah so e-fest for those of you that don't know I looked up the definition the exterior insulation so basically
044it's the synthetic stucco kind of type material that's on the outside of our buildings the base bid now we did a lot of different bits because we weren't sure how to break this up so the base bid number one covers all of the south and east facing Rufus okay alternate one covers the west and North Facing East and Alternate two covers the courtyard which is the outside but inside of the building and so that was done for both Northfield and Southwood we had two bidders and so um you can see what those base bids and Alternate work and Talon was a total if you did all of the alternates and base bid at 272 thousand nine dollars where Atlas was at 428 195 recorders to do it all we had a budget for 288 thousand
045dollars uh as far as an estimate on some of that uh project so by going with Talon we would be able to do all we dealt with them before have we dealt with Talent no we haven't really ever done it but according to Barton Co Talon and Atlas are the same company one has more overhead than the other so Choose Wisely because the one person that came at the pre-bid there you go yeah foreign [Music] tracks I moved itself again it wasn't right yeah he came to the bid meeting the pre-bit meeting but he wasn't there so they opening his buddy was or I have a motion a second for approval and a little bit all in favor recommendations salvage food service items yeah so just doing a little cleanup uh if any of you
046guys are looking for super spins for flower sifters any of that type of stuff we pass it around to the different kitchens home at classrooms they took what they needed and the rest uh we're just going to donate to Lighthouse ministers or someplace and get rid of it it creates some open storage so we just need a recommendation to say we're going to establish it so that we can get ready yeah no I appreciate the donation peace with that do I have a motion all in favor say all right all right last item this evening is recommendation to prune reappointment from Marcia Jones to the Troyer Memorial Library board which is Emma fountain in terms of four years from February 1st of this year to January 31st of 2027. yeah assuming excited all in favor
047of approval say aye thank you we have no unfinished business listed the award policy any public comment about this evening dad or ask foreign [Music]